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By most accounts, "The Interview," the comedy that revolves around a bumbling plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is not high art but the sort of sophomoric, gross-out shtick that Hollywood produces in bulk these days. But most Americans will likely never be able to judge that for themselves as Sony Pictures Entertainment has decided not to release the movie on Christmas Day as planned because of a terror threat and "has no further release plans" in the future. That comes on the heels of the recent computer hacking attack on Sony that U.S. intelligence has pinned on the North Korean government. In other words, it appears a 31-year-old third-generation...

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By most accounts, "The Interview," the comedy that revolves around a bumbling plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is not high art but the sort of sophomoric, gross-out shtick that Hollywood produces in bulk these days. But...

The suspected North Korean cyber attack on Sony Pictures computers this month has left the Obama administration scrambling to come up with a response to the massive data beach carried out against a multinational company by a foreign government. While no...

No consensus exists between the U.S. government and cyber security experts as to whether North Korea is responsible for the online dumping of Sony Pictures Entertainment's confidential business data and emails. Even if it could be...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has canceled the release of its satiric film, "The Interview," as a result of major U.S. movie chains' refusal to screen it because of terrorist threats from North Korea.
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Steve Mosko was not exactly the best student when he graduated The John Carroll School in 1974.
In fact, "a guidance counselor told me I probably wasn't college material," Mosko, who's since become the head of a major television studio,...

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The answer is: "Who is Cathy Bloedorn?"
The question: "This Howard High School teacher signed a contract that prohibits her from telling how she fared on the TV...

Poor California has suffered its share of unnatural disasters at the movies — everything from giant ants and radiated octopuses to body-snatching space pods and English-mangling Terminators. So it's good to see someone finally sending in the Marines...

Vintage Hollywood movies were often belittled for taking liberties with history and glazing over the facts in their biographical dramas. But where are the upholders of truth when it comes to the current crop of American films?Movies by top-rank...

A little boy lost in unknown waters, a father's perilous journey to retrieve him — no, it's not "Finding Nemo." In this case, we're talking about 2011's best horror film to date, arriving July 12 on DVD and Blu-ray."Insidious" (Sony...

Foreign films are definitely among the good things in life that come to those who wait. Today, any home can be an art house. You can satisfy your wanderlust without sweating passports or custom forms.Indeed, the best foreign directors often place a higher...

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WASHINGTON — A December blackout of North Korea's Internet was retaliation for that nation's hacking of computers at Sony's Hollywood studio, a top U.S. lawmaker on cybersecurity issues said without identifying who was responsible.
Rep. Michael McCaul of...

WASHINGTON A December blackout of North Korea's Internet was retaliation for that nation's hacking of computers at Sony Corp.'s Hollywood studio, a top U.S. lawmaker on cybersecurity issues said without identifying who was responsible. Rep....

Kourtney Kardashian hasn't seen this number on the scale in a long time: 120 pounds.
(And neither have we, but that's beside the point.)
The eldest Kardashian sister, who welcomed her third child, Reign, in December with boyfriend Scott Disick,...

Despite the danger posed by Islamic State and other extremist groups, the nation's top intelligence official warned Thursday that sophisticated cyberattacks like the recent hack of Sony Pictures posed a greater threat to the United States.
The threat...

In her first interview since her exit as co-chairman of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal acknowledged she was fired.
Speaking to journalist Tina Brown at the Women in the World conference Wednesday night in San Francisco, Pascal joked, "All the women...